by Andrew Tirado | Apr 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
A friend of mine, a contemporary of the late Chicano sculptor Luis Jimenez who had shown at the same New York gallery for a time, told me Luis had told him his large-scale commission for the Denver International Airport, a 32 foot tall sculpture of a stallion called... by Andrew Tirado | Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently, we spent some time camping near Moab, Utah. I’d been there a few times prior, mid summer, to raft on the Colorado River, but had never been into Arches or Canyonlands, two stunningly gorgeous national parks nearby. This time, we saw both, and I’m... by Andrew Tirado | Apr 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Water Ring with Outliers, 2013. Painted steel and wood. Photo courtesy the artist.The following post was originally written in 2014, just prior to the opening of a group sculpture exhibit at the Denver Botanic Gardens. It’s primarily a photo essay focusing... by Andrew Tirado | Apr 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
photo credit: Scott JohnsonThe following is the only blog post with no precursor (of over three hundred eventual posts before I retired my original blog), written on February 7, 2013. At that point, I was just twelve months into the artistic change of direction... by Andrew Tirado | Apr 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Handing off the baton, as we’ve all heard, is the moment most fraught with peril in a relay race. I was probably thinking along those lines when I wrote the following ones just prior to leaving my shop supervisory position at the Colorado College last March....
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